Management and Cost Accounting, 8th edition

Published by Pearson (April 5, 2023) © 2023

  • Alnoor Bhimani The London School of Economics and Political Science
  • Srikant M. Datar Harvard University
  • Charles Horngren Edmund W. Littlefield Professor Emeritus of Accounting at Stanford University
  • Madhav V. Rajan Stanford University
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Title overview

Get a real sense of how managers use essential cost accounting techniques in the business world with one of the leading texts in the field.

Management and Cost Accounting brings together techniques, concepts and practices managers use in the business environment.

Packed with illustrations, exercises, and examples, the latest edition presents a wealth of cutting-edge case studies featuring companies from around the world and up-to-date coverage of the most contemporary aspects affecting management accounting today.

With updated content on sustainability practices and a range of real-life applications, this book will provide you with essential tools for your course and future career.

Table of contents

Part 1 Management and cost accounting fundamentals

  1. The manager and management accounting
  2. An introduction to cost terms and purposes
  3. Job costing
  4. Process costing
  5. Cost allocation
  6. Cost allocation: joint-cost situations
  7. Income effects of alternative stock-costing methods

Part 2 Accounting information for decision making

  1. Cost–volume–profit analysis
  2. Determining how costs behave
  3. Relevant information for decision making
  4. Activity-based costing
  5. Pricing issues and customer profitability analysis
  6. Capital investment decisions

Part 3 Planning and budgetary control systems

  1. Motivation, budgets and responsibility accounting
  2. Flexible budgets, variances and management control: I
  3. Flexible budgets, variances and management control: II
  4. Measuring yield, mix and quantity effects

Part 4 Management control systems

  1. Control systems and transfer pricing
  2. Control systems and performance measurement

Part 5 Strategy, quality, time and emerging issues

  1. Strategy, the balanced scorecard and quality
  2. Accounting, time and efficiency
  3. Emerging issues: digitalisation and sustainability

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